Improved washing-machine



Arnivfr @Erica EDGAR CHIPMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

lMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specication forming part ofLcttcrs Patent- No. BLIQLL dated January 12, 1864.

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR CHIPMAN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GlothesNVashing Machines; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to thc accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a side sectional view of iny invention, taken in the line x fr, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the saine, partly in section; Fig. 3, a side view of one of the bear` ings of the rotary pressure-roller; Fig. 4, an end view of the pressure-roller.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to a certain improvenient in that class of washing-machines which are arranged to rock or oscillate back and forth, and which are provided with a rotary pressure-roller.

The invention consists, tirst, in combining a seat with the body or box of the washingma v. .chine in such aI manner that a person while on the seat may, by a very slight exertion or effort-such as is required in rocking a chairimpart-a rocking movement to the machine and operate the same with the greatest facility.

The invention consists, second, in a peculiar manner of hanging the rotary pressure-roller within the box of the machine, whereby the pressure-roller is allowed an Aindependent self,- adjusting movement to yield or give to the clothes and prevent the wedging or binding ofthe same underneath the pressureroller.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the box of the washing-machine, which has a segmcntshaped or semicircular bottom, and has rockers B attached to it. On the top of this box A there is aseat, G, which may be provided with a back, a, and arms b, like those oi' an ordinary chair or settee. rlhis seat C is sufficiently high to form, when the operator is seated upon it, a counterpoise for the, machine, and admit of the latter by a very slight exertion on the part of the occupant ot' the seat-such, for instance, as is required in rockinga chair-to work or rock back and forth and perform the required Work with comparatively no labor, it being simply an agreeable recreation.

E, Fig. 4, is a pressure-roller which is used with the washing-machine. This roller is placed within the box A, and its shaft c has its ends fitted in curved or segment grooves d at the inner sides of the box A. These curved or segment grooves d admit of the roller having a self-adjusting movement forward and backward in an upward direction as the machineis operated, and by this means said parts are allowed to relieve themselves in case ofthe clothes having atendency to wedge underneath them.

Vhat l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination ot' the seat C with the rocking box A of a washing-machine arranged substantially as shownto admit of the rocking or oscillating of the box by a slight exertion of the occupant ofthe seat, as set forth.

2. The hanging of the pressure-roller within curved or segment grooves or bearings d in the box A, substantially as shown, to admit of the seliadjnsting relieving movement of said roller, as herein set forth.

EDGAR CHIPMAN.

Witnesses:

D. BoBnR'rsoN, M. M. LIVINGSTON. 

